Hi, On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 01:38:53PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > ssh host cat 'path with spaces' > ssh host "cat 'path with spaces'" Too many shells involved... This is really not a "SSH problem" but a "unix command line *left and right* which both have ideas about interpretation of specific characters". And yes, it can get highly annoying and frustrating. Sometimes it can be solved by passing the special-character-data through stdin... gert -- "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor." Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Gert Doering - Munich, Germany gert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev